Which shows, Socrates, how little they know what the gods think about piety and impiety. SOCRATES: Good heavens, Euthyphro! and is your knowledge of religion and of things pious and impious so very exact, that, supposing the circumstances to be as you state them, you are not afraid lest you too may be doing an impious thing in bringing an action against your father? EUTHYPHRO: The best of Euthyphro, and that which distinguishes him, Socrates, from other men, is his exact knowledge of all such matters.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

Although there is no independent food-yelk, apart from the formative yelk, in the mammal ovum, and although its segmentation is total on that account, nevertheless a large yelk-sac is formed in their embryos, and the “embryo proper” spreads leaf-wise over its surface, as in the reptiles and birds, which have a large food-yelk and partial segmentation.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

But I am not a lady, you see, and that makes a difference.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

The silly ostrich makes a noise as loud, yet he never was feared by man.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

I will go away now, and leave you to make your apologies to her.
— from Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels by St. John Hankin

You will need four good hours, or five, for you are not a landsman, your shoes hurt you, and you would rather reef top-sails—aye, and take the lee earing, too, in any gale and a score of times, than breast that mountain.
— from The Children of the King: A Tale of Southern Italy by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Mrs. Palma, I do not wish to disturb or annoy you in any way, and as I love my dog very much, and you have no room for him, I would much rather go away now and leave you in peace.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

"I wish he would like me," said Curdie, "for then I might watch by him at night, and let you go to bed, princess."
— from The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald